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Open Education for TexasVirtual College of Texas (VCT)Lumen Learning

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Why OER?

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OER Impact on Texas Students

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A.S. Business Degree Textbook Cost OER (Lumen)English Comp I $64.50 $5

English Comp II $129.85 $5

US History I $47.00 $5

US History II $115.00 $5

College Success $0.00 $5

Biology I $249.35 $5

Biology II $198.00 $5

American Lit $63.00 $5

British Lit $58.00 $5

Microeconomics $137.75 $5

Macroeconomics $184.65 $5

US Government $79.85 $5

Texas Government $106.45 $106.45

Art History $165.00 $5

Business Principles $73.50 $5

Bus. Computer Apps $187.65 $5

Business Calculus $158.65 $5

Financial Accounting $165.00 $5

Managerial Accounting $183.65 $5

$2,366.85 $196.45

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30% reduction in cost of degree

92% reduction in cost of degree

Tuition and Fees

Textbooks

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Availability of OER for Texas Core Curriculum Courses

# Courses Required

# Available as OER

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Recent Efforts in Texas

• Achieving the Dream Texas Grant Team• Austin • Alamo• El Paso• San Jacinto

• VCT – parallel OER adoption efforts

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Open educational resources (OER):

allow all students to have day 1 access to learning materials

give faculty full control of their learning resources

address affordability and access issues by reducing the cost of

an Associate’s degree by 30%

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Textbook Costs Negatively Impact Success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

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OER Impact on Student Success, 2014-2015

C or Better Completion0%

10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

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78%

93%

74%85%

Sample: 4,909 open course students, 11,818 traditional course students, 50 different undergraduate courses, 130 teachers, 8 institutions.Method: Quasi-experimental design with: Propensity Score Matching, Post Test Only. Dependent variables: Completion; C or Better; Credits Enrolled This Term; Next Term, Independent variable: Textbook condition, 3 covariates: including age, gender, and race.

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Open Courses Traditional Courses

9% reduction in drops and W’s

5% increase in passing rates

18% more credits this term

22% more credits next term

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Lumen’s Support

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Lumen Provides and Experienced Partner

Emphasis is working within institutional processes to achieve greatest possible impact on student success using OER

• Training and guidance for faculty, leadership, and support staff

• Access to best prior work from peer institutions• Tools to share courses and materials across different learning management systems

• Knowledge and guarantees in open licensing• On-going sustainability through content and technology updates

Cost: $5 per student enrollment

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Selection of Lumen Customers

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Finding the OER impact sweet spot

Curated Open Courses

High-Enrollment Courses

Engaged Faculty

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Project Overview

Training

1-2 days

Course selection

+1-3 weeks

Content review & alignment;

fill gaps

+1-4 weeks

Configure courses in

LMS

+1-3 days

Teach OER courses

start of term

Set up LTI Integration

+1 hour

LMS course imports

+1 day

Faculty Participation

LMS/Tech Support

Institutions often begin offering open courses six weeks after an initial workshop.

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Cumulative Cost Savings: Lumen Learning

Spring 2014 Fall 2014 Spring 2015 Fall 2015 Spring 2016$0

$2,000,000

$4,000,000

$6,000,000

$8,000,000

$10,000,000

$12,000,000

$14,000,000

Term by Term Cumulative

$11 million+ in textbook savings since 2014

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Key Projects

• Kaleidoscope Next Generation Learning Challenges

Lumen was formed to support the scaling of a grant that explored effective practices in using OER to improve success for at-risk students. The grant impacted over 160,000 students, with statistically significant improvements to success in 9 of 15 courses.

• Virginia OER Degree ProgramsLumen supported Tidewater Community College in developing the first Associate’s degree program that used only OER as learning materials. Lumen worked with Northern Virginia Community College to enhance and share two additional degree programs. Today Lumen supports the Zx23 program to bring OER degree programs to all 23 community colleges in Virginia.

• Gates Next Generation Courseware ChallengeIn late 2014 Lumen was awarded a significant grant to develop courseware for gateway courses that provides new approaches to personalized learning. Lumen’s design takes on Benjamin Bloom’s 2-sigma problem, and seeks to increase both the level of mastery in the learning process and the quality of personal interaction between students and community college faculty members.

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Recent Efforts in Texas

• Achieving the Dream Texas Grant Team• Austin • Alamo• El Paso• San Jacinto

• VCT – parallel OER adoption efforts

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Common Questions

• Copyright liabilityLumen guarantees the licensing of all resources that it provides, and the appropriate application of open licenses.

• AccessibilityLumen has a partnership with the Inclusive Design Research Centre to review and implement best-in-class accessibility solutions and the platform and content level. As faculty customizations inevitably introduce new accessibility issues, we work with the institution to review and address issues in all courses.

• Privacy/FERPA complianceThe Lumen platform does not capture, transmit or store student data. When the institution participates in research facilitated by Lumen only de-identified student data is exchanged.

• FlexibilityAll content and resources are openly licensed. The institution pays a support fee to have these hosted and supported in Lumen’s platform, which integrates with the institution’s LMS. Should the institution choose not to work with Lumen in the future it would be free to use the open resources, but would need to provide a new approach or platform for delivery.

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Contact Information

• VCT- • Gary Abernethy -Director VCT

• Lumen Learning• Nate Angell - “Doorman” (nate@lumenlearning.com)